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Lisa Regazzoni – What does history have to do with physics? Or matter with theory of history? How strongly have scientific models of the material and physical world informed how scholars understand history? To what extent can contemporary models of physical reality, such as quantum mechanics, help us to rethink our concept of historical reality?
Martina Kessel – Democracy today is under serious attack. How does that danger connect to the construction of ‘the modern’ or the ways modern societies have organised themselves since the late eighteenth century?
Editorial Board – How do these collections change when shifting from the physical bookshelf to the digital space? Please share your thoughts in German, English, French or Italian here.
Thibault Sauzaret – Rethinking the history of countries formerly colonised by European powers is a broader issue than might seem at first glance, since it involves not only the need to decentralise our perspective, but also to question how this past is represented, particularly in museums.
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Paul Kurek – Now that the widespread interdisciplinary call to finally face our geological foundations as an overarching material and intellectual framework is getting louder and louder, it seems unavoidable that we become aware of how close our collective weight has come to exceeding our planet’s load-bearing capacity.
Jana Kristin Hoffmann & Philipp McLean – Theories of history have gained considerable prominence in recent scholarship. Much has been written on the significance of theory in the field of historical science. Since Reinhart Koselleck’s seminal essay, ‘Wozu noch Historie?’ (Why History?), published in 1970, it has become evident that historical science is fundamentally dependent on theoretical foundations. Furthermore, the cultural turn and the advent of the digital humanities have led to a proliferation of theoretical approaches. There is also increasing recognition of the need for theoretical discussions, with the question of what constitutes historical theory remaining a topic of ongoing debate. However, a gap persists in the (university) teaching of historical-theoretical thinking in connection with the instruction of historical research practice.
Bennett Gilbert – We are inside of history; we are history in the becoming. We need to learn from the past, but we do not. Why do we hide history? Why does the power of the past to connect us to others often fail?
Editorial Board – How does this object demonstrate the interweaving of theory and empirical evidence in historical research?
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Ethan Kleinberg – Consider the Komposita “KoselleckConceptGhost” (Koselleckbegriffgespenst). The agglutination is not stable, and it is unclear which term should lead the way. If it is Koselleck, or Koselleck’s ghost, that leads, then the injunction is to investigate the semantic value of the word “ghost” to determine whether there has been a change in its valence and significance over time.
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Giuseppe Duso – There are times when an image can be particularly poignant for communicating a vision of politics because it not only “speaks” to the observer, but also almost seems to express a theoretical argument.
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